February 2012
5 posts
“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I...”
– Romans 7:15-25
“I vow to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love demands, to speak when words are needed and to share the silence when they are not, and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home.”
“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where it’s selfishness...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, the scarlet letter
January 2012
13 posts
Future husband
I think about you a lot. I pray for you a lot. Its funny to think that you’re somewhere on this earth, living a life that will soon become nothing but stories. It’s funny to think that I’m living a life that will soon become nothing but distant memories. It’s funny to think that we have a whole lifetime ahead of us and we haven’t even met. So here’s to all of...
it’s a pursuit of purity and passion
it’s a search for something sound
it’s a gesture of grace and goodness
it’s surrender to the Spirit
it’s a blazing flame being blessed
it’s a secret that is shouted shamelessly
it’s confidence that cannot be found apart from him
it’s a hunger for holiness
it’s love
it’s peace
it’s...
tonight is one of those nights
the one where my mind endlessly tries to catch itself
the one where i’m content and anxious
the one where i’m happy and sad
the one where i’m thankful for my friends
the one where i imagine myself traveling to somewhere unknown and sleeping in the streets and watching the sun set and the sun rise
the one where i’m in africa playing...
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1/10/12
i know that everything is meaningless, except for You. so why do i keep on wasting my heart on petty things?
i don’t want to want anything else. i want to only want You.
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“Humans are amphibians- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to...”
– C.S Lewis, The Screwtape letters
December 2011
15 posts
it's time
It’s time to let go of what is holding you back. of what’s hardening your heart. of the unrealistic love songs. of the dreams you dream against his will. of over thinking every single damn thing that happens in your life. of serving people instead of God. of being selfish instead of selfless. of not believing you were fearfully and wonderfully made. of the delusion that you can satisfy...
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12-19-11 →
i have been thinking a lot about the woman i want to be and the girl i am today.
i want to be a mama and a nurturer…a woman who radiates kindness and joy and generosity. i want to be a woman who worships daily through her thoughts, words, and actions. i want love to overflow from me. and i want to be joined with a man in marriage who wants the same things i want - adoption, laughter, small...
and so i'll wait
Sometimes, when I’m bored, I sit and fill out the never ending mission applications with global expeditions just for fun.
The four week trip to Uganda this summer is $4,532. I’m secretly planning my summer around those four weeks just in case, by some slim chance, my parents decide to let me go. I think the only reason why they’re hesitant is because of the money. Of course,...
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“That was right after everything happened, and I was still in a silent phase....”
handwritten letters
long walks
praying together
traveling
adopting
smiling
studying
you you you you YOU
12/4/11
I don’t want stability as much as society wants me to. I want an adventure that concludes at my final breath. I want to be with different cultures and make my heart a home in every bit of land I see. I want to breathe every kind of air and laugh with strangers and be merry and spread Love. I am a dreamer of dreams. Goodnight.
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ten things i hate about you
“I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car, I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick, it even makes me rhyme. I hate the way you’re always right, I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate...
“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn.
My God, do you learn.”
– C.S. Lewis
November 2011
9 posts
Did you know?
God knew every single sin you and I were ever going to make and punished Jesus for it. He loves us so much that he gave his only son so that we could live. Blows my mind. My heart hurts that Jesus, and all of his perfect being, had to suffer because I screw up.
Thank you for loving me, Jesus. I don’t deserve it. I don’t deserve you. I’m so sorry.
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Anonymous asked: are you dating someone
Things that make me happy:
(as of late)
-You
-knitting
-rain
-coffee
-thinking
-pumpkin pie
-cheesy jokes
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Psalm 23:1-4
The lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
He leads me beside quiet waters,
he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness
for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
Your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
This has been my heart for the...
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Adventures
One day, I’m going to go to the airport and I’m just gonna buy a ticket to somewhere beautiful. I’m going to aimlessly walk around the streets of an unknown place with nothing but a camera and a backpack of necessities. I feel like there’s so much to see that I might just need another pair of eyes present. I wouldn’t mind some company. We’d sleep in the streets...
October 2011
12 posts
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“Eventually, however, we all descend from the clouds and plant our feet on earth...”
– Gary Chapman
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“It’s not what I feel for you;
it’s what I don’t feel for...”
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10/24/11 →
It’s days like today when I just don’t understand my heart. It’s not a bad day, I am not sad, and nothing is particularly wrong (other than the paper due today that I should have finished a week ago). It’s more that I can’t make sense of the pendulum pattern of my thoughts and my feelings, and I’m quite aware of how much sin distorts and deceives in every area of our lives.
But it’s days...
“And the god of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after...”
– 1 Peter 5:10
#please
“If you’re everything you say you are, would you come close and hold my heart?”
“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds – but I think of...”
– Salvador Plascencia